A citizen perspective on nutritional warnings as front-of-pack labels: insights for the design of accompanying policy measures

Public Health Nutrition
Gastón AresIsabel Bove

Abstract

Nutritional warnings have recently been suggested as a simplified front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme to facilitate citizens' ability to identify unhealthful products and discourage their consumption. However, citizens' perspective on this policy is still under-researched. The objective of the present work was to study how citizens perceive nutritional warnings and to evaluate public support of this policy, with the goal of deriving recommendations for the design of policy measures accompanying the introduction of nutritional warnings. An online survey with 1416 Uruguayan citizens, aged 18-75 years, 61 % female, was conducted. Participants had to answer a series of questions (open-ended and multiple-choice) related to their perception of warnings as a front-of-package nutrition labelling scheme. Participants showed a positive attitude towards nutritional warnings, which were regarded as easy to understand and to identify on food packages. The majority of respondents emphasized that they would take nutritional warnings into account when making their food choices, stating that they would allow them to make informed choices and, consequently, to increase the quality of their diet and their health status. Health motivation app...Continue Reading

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Jun 28, 2019·Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity·Rebecca KanterCamila Corvalán
Nov 26, 2019·Health Education & Behavior : the Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education·Gastón AresIsabel Bove
Jun 27, 2019·PloS One·Priscila de Morais SatoFernanda Baeza Scagliusi
Aug 30, 2019·Public Health Nutrition·Gabriela VidalGastón Ares
Mar 5, 2021·International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition·Marco Francesco MazzùAntea Gambicorti
Jul 28, 2021·Public Health Nutrition·Gastón AresAnne Marie Thow
Jul 28, 2021·International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition·Michal BrombergDvora Frankenthal

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